Big cat with small head and massive tail spotted in Brockworth
A FRESH big cat sighting could mean the elusive creature has returned to an old hunting ground.
A brown cat with a long thin, tail and a small head was spotted by a woman near Tesco Extra in Brockworth on October 17.
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SIGHTING: Tesco Extra.
Big cat tracker Frank Tunbridge said the woman reported the sighting to him, and it tallies with a number of sightings in the area last year.
"She saw it at about 7pm," said Frank, who records an average of two sightings a week in Gloucestershire. "It wasn't black but brown, and I believe it's been up there before.
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"It was quite thin, with a massive long tail and a relatively small head."
Frank has been inundated with big cat sightings after University of Warwick tested deer killed at Woodchester and Dursley for big cat DNA earlier this year.
The tests proved negative but video footage taken by teaching assistant Coryn Memory showed what could be a big cat.
The latest sighting is not the first in and around Brockworth. In January this year, Cooper's Edge resident Hayley Huntley heard what Frank believed may have been a puma's shriek, after builders found a stripped deer carcass near the new Barratt Homes development.
In December 2010 a large black cat was seen walking across a fence in Boverton Drive.
Ken Ward saw a big cat near the rugby ground in Mill Lane in 2001 – describing it as "3-4ft long, with pointed ears, a small head and a thickish tail. Light brown in colour, and the back half of its body was thick-set".
Jogger Christine Edney made a similar sighting in 2002 at Castle Hill.
Comments
by FreeRadical1
Friday, November 02 2012, 6:06PM
“Frank Tunbridge had a letter published in The Citizen on 31st October. Basically, it was repeating things that he's said before.”
by cortezcortez
Saturday, October 27 2012, 6:41PM
“Was it carrying a dodgy sandwich with a black pipe filling”
by FreeRadical1
Saturday, October 27 2012, 3:10PM
“How come all of the sightings have different descriptions? Black, light brown, thin tail, thickish tail, etc.”
by GlosYap2
Saturday, October 27 2012, 2:55PM
“Breaking News: All PCC Candidates vow to solve Gloucestershire Big Cat mystery if elected....”
by North Glos EPC
Saturday, October 27 2012, 12:12PM
“Bagpuss”
by HuckiePhil
Saturday, October 27 2012, 7:37AM
“It's absolutely, definitely a black panther, and no doubt about it.”
by amygloucester
Friday, October 26 2012, 11:22PM
“all these big cats story's are so boring...why doesn't someone see an alien instead for once, make it a bit more exciting?????????”
by FreeRadical1
Friday, October 26 2012, 4:39PM
“Exactly which species of big cat does Frank Tunbridge claim this one to be? Earlier this year he claimed that there was a puma on the loose in Podsmead (by which I assume that he means a cougar, which is another name for a puma). A puma fits the description of a 'brown cat with a long, thin tail and a small head' (to correct the punctuation). However, pumas are absolutely huge. We'd all soon know if there was a puma on the loose in Gloucestershire, as it would be killing large animals, both domestic and wild, and probably attacking humans. I suspect that this sighting, like the Essex Lion, was of a large domestic cat. BTW, foxes have bushy tails, so it wasn't a fox.”
by spindles12
Friday, October 26 2012, 1:31PM
“This big cat story reminds me of a horror film where the monster is battered to death and just when you least expected UP IT POPS! AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN......
If there are all these big cats in various parts of the county then why do they go quiet for weeks, sometimes months because, if they are so prolific, wouldn't there be sightings every week?
Perhaps Frank was getting withdrawal symptoms.”
by buffalo
Friday, October 26 2012, 12:37PM
“We saw a "beast" matching the description on Abbeymead Avenue last night, guess what - it was a fox!”